Make a Difference… Volunteer!
CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS! We have
a LOT of things planned and need everyone's help. Please let me
know what events or tasks that you can help with. The shelter is,
once again, packed to capacity with rescues but we have so much
going on that with your help we can get everything settled down
quickly.
This Saturday, 09/23/06
We need volunteers for our regular adoption day this Saturday
at Petsmart. Setup is at
9am, events run from 10am - 4pm.
Shelter Work Day, 09/24/06
We have some great changes planned for the yards at our
shelter but we need some help to remodel them for maximum space
for the dogs. We will be at the shelter at 1pm Sunday, 09/24/06,
to start work on our plan. We need your help! We will be
moving gates and fencing to make new yards and expand existing
yards. Experience is not necessary... extra hands make a
difference! The weather is nice so it is a great opportunity to
come out and help and also spend time with the dogs before the
weather turns cold. For planning purposes, please let me know if
you can help.
Petsmart Wolfchase Grand Opening
Petsmart is opening a new store next to Target in Wolfchase
the weekend of October 7th. We have been invited to participate in
the grand opening, Friday - Sunday. We will need a lot of
volunteers to cover the entire weekend. If you can assist, just
let me know what day / shift you can help. Any hours between 9am
(setup) to 4pm is greatly appreciated.
Garage Sale, 10/07/06
In addition to the Petsmart grand opening, we have another
garage sale planned. Please start saving 'stuff' ... more details
to come soon!
A Home for the Holidays
We are starting the work preparing for our large adoption and
fundraising event on November 4th in Oakland in front of Kroger
(H64 & H194). If you can help with the planning & preparation
please let me know ASAP. The more help we have and the more we do
early the less the burden on us all right before the event. This
is a BIG event for us! If you live in Fayette County and have not
volunteered much due to the distance to Petco / Petsmart or other
events please consider signing up for this one!
If you are
interested in volunteering please email Laurie at
fayettefcar@hotmail.com.
Our Rescues
New Arrivals
Honestly, there are just too many to
list but a few highlights... we got 4 dogs from one house in a
cruelty case (charges to be filed this week). Stinger was the
first one pulled but we went back and seized Chainy, Tugger &
Shady. They had no food or water, ticks, fleas, chains around
their necks, etc.
Hot Rod, a new momma dog and her 6
babies have joined us. The babies are almost 3 weeks old now and
huge compared to momma. They are all doing beatifully.
We rescued 6 six-week old puppies and
their mom, Shannon, in Rossville. Two of the puppies are blind,
they were very skinny, ticks, fleas and had been eating corn from
the fields. They are at my house and are doing incredibly.
Winnie (the Pooh) is a rottweiler mix
puppy that has most of her hair missing from mange. She is the
best puppy ever... she is also at my house (in the bathroom) and
has only had one accident during the entire 8 days she has been
here. And the can't even be 8 weeks old! Wish they were all so
easy :)
We had 3 animals returned this week.
Champ (one of Mookie's puppies) was returned after two years
because they felt like they did not have time for him. Simon, one
of the australian shepherd puppies was returned and we are waiting
for someone to bring back Knox who the owners adopted from us over
3 years ago.
Smudge is Jack Russell Terrier mix who
is healthy other than a broken pelvis. Soon as she heals up (4-6
weeks) she'll be ready for adoption.
Honestly, I'm sure there are more new
animals but that gets you all kind of caught up. If you haven't
been out to the shelter lately I recommend that you come visit...
things have changed a lot lately!
Adoptions
We had 3 kittens adopted Saturday
and 2 kittens adopted last Saturday. I wish we could get some
dogs in new homes but at least this clears out our huge kitten
population we have had for a while. I think we have 1 Russian
blue, one of Slinky's kittens and 2 new kittens at the shelter
right now.
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